The Radford Free Press – Page 76 – All life is problem solving.

Economics / Business Theory, capitalism, democracy, Drucker, economic theory, Hayek, Karl Popper, plutocracy, Schumpeter, von Mises /

The Paradox of People

August 11, 2016

Yesterday I stirred up a certain curiosity as to why I had lumped Peter Drucker into the same bag as both von Mises and Hayek. Well, simply put, the three of them, along with Karl Popper and Joesph Schumpeter, had an enormous, even oversized, impact on modern economics. Yes economics. Let’s not fall into the […]

Economics / austerity, capitalism, democracy, Hayek, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Tony Judt, von Mises /

Trump, Denial and The End of Normal

August 10, 2016

Shocking is an understatement. Donald Trump is unfit for public office, be it town clerk or president of the US. He’s an unbalanced egomaniac. He’s a racist. He’s an immature misogynist. He’s many other awful things. Presidential, he is not. How did we get here? Failure. But a particular kind of failure. Failure dressed as success. […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, plutocracy /

Spot The Crisis

July 21, 2016

We hear it all the time. It is a relentless drum beat on the left. Capitalism, we are told, is in crisis. This crisis is manifested in all sorts of ways. We – meaning those of us on the left – need to prepare. We need to counter attack. We need to seize this moment […]